More fritters than first-night jitters

Clanbrassil House has confident, flavour-focused cooking by a kitchen team that is clearly enjoying what it’s doing

Clanbrassil House is the casual sister act to popular Dublin 8 eatery Bastible Pic: Fergal Phillips

Clanbrassil House

6 Clanbrassil Street Upper, Dublin 8 01-4539786

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Chef: Grainne O’Keefe

I did something I swore I’d never do last week: I went to a restaurant on opening night.

While it’s always nice to be first with a review – the day you don’t want to be first with any story is the day you’ve stopped being a journalist, in my humble opinion – turning up on night one isn’t really ...